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Last updated on 2022-10-10.

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Connor Gilroy

Computational social scientist & PhD candidate

Sociologist seeking roles in data science or quantitative social science. I have 7+ years of experience analyzing text, spatial, network, and survey data, with broad skills in statistics, programming, and written and visual communication of analytic insights. My dissertation research uses NLP methods and survey data to explain variations in expressions and experiences of community across digital and location-based contexts.

Employment

University of Washington

N/A

Seattle, WA

present - 2015

Graduate Teaching Assistant & Instructor: Taught sections and courses including sociological theory, data and society (undergraduate), social statistics, data science and population processes, Bayesian statistics for the social sciences (graduate) | R, Stata, Stan

Graduate Research Assistant: Analyzed Twitter networks of US homeless care organizations, built a web crawler and a PostgreSQL database to scrape and store text data from nonprofit and government webpages (with Zack Almquist); built an agent-based network model of public opinion change (with Katherine Stovel) | R, Python, SQL, NetLogo

Meta

N/A

Seattle, WA

summer 2022, 2021, 2020

Data Science Intern (2022): Analyzed feed engagement with reshared Groups content, built a data pipeline to create a new experimental metric, and reanalyzed a collection of experiments to quantify tradeoffs between types of content | R, Python, SQL

User Experience Research Intern (2021, 2020): Designed, fielded, and analyzed a complex survey of job seeker needs and satisfaction (2021); designed and conducted quantitative studies (behavioral log data analysis + survey) of factors driving initial participation in new communities (2020) | R, Python, SQL

The World Bank Group

N/A

Washington, DC

2020

Consultant, Survey Data Analysis: Created statistical models and data visualizations of gender-based individual and household disparities in Central Asia | R

Epic Systems Corporation

N/A

Verona, WI

2015 - 2013

Quality Assurance: Automated and manual software testing for web APIs and enterprise healthcare software | C#, Python, Excel

Education

PhD, Sociology

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

expected 2023

MA, Sociology

University of Washington

Seattle, WA

2018

BA, Biology and Geophysical Sciences

University of Chicago

Chicago, IL

2013

Selected Publications

Digital Traces of Sexualities: Understanding the Salience of Sexual Identity through Disclosure on Social Media

Gilroy, Connor and Ridhi Kashyap. Socius 7: 1–18. doi: 10.1177/23780231211029499

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2021

Humans in the Loop: Incorporating Expert and Crowdsourced Knowledge for Predictions using Social Survey Data

Filippova, Anna, Connor Gilroy, Ridhi Kashyap, Antje Kirchner, Allison C. Morgan, Kivan Polimis, Adaner Usmani, and Tong Wang. Socius 5: 1–15. doi: 10.1177/2378023118820157. (corresponding author)

N/A

2019